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Which 1 of 12 is Your Favorite Month?


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Embiid

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Goddamit ....another speed trap photo ticket on the Boulevard. The whole damn thing is one big speed trap apparently. Philadelphia Parking Authority are fascists! The most efficient operation in all of Philadelphia.....that is now 300 bucks of violations I have incurred on that road to hell in the last couple of months. That on top of the 180 in Bucks County for that BS stop sign violation I have to fight for point consideration. Gonna just have to use 95 to go to my mom's and hope not to get shot by a road rager, get killed by drag racers or get killed by a bridge collapse.
 
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PDX Flyer

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Goddamit ....another speed trap photo ticket on the Boulevard. The whole damn thing is one big speed trap apparently. Philadelphia Parking Authority are fascists! The most efficient operation in all of Philadelphia.....that is now 300 bucks of violations I have incurred on that road to hell in the last couple of months. That on top of the 180 in Bucks County for that BS stop sign violation I have to fight for point consideration. Gonna just have to use 95 to go to my mom's and hope not to get shot by a road rager, get killed by drag racers or get killed by a bridge collapse.
Ever thought of just driving close to the limit? I’d kinda put the drivers that speed in the conversation of road rage/racers.
 

Lord Defect

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It turns out this stuff wrecks me pretty severely even if I use a mask.
That’s because masks don’t do anything for it. You need an OV-P100 and I don’t think they sell those in any form shy of a respirator cartridge.
 

Lord Defect

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Somehow human remains were recovered from the wreckage. Wonder what could withstand that incredible crushing force. Maybe a hip replacement or two?
I’ve seen pictures from an incident from 89. Some bodies were barely damaged while others were unspeakable.
Being that it was one room, and the pressure had no where to “slowly” equalize as it traveled through the vessel, it’s gotta look like a horror show
 

Embiid

Marcus Hayes "bitch" slapper
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Ever thought of just driving close to the limit? I’d kinda put the drivers that speed in the conversation of road rage/racers.
Who the fook drives the limit? It was 1-2 miles over the 11mph trigger. Slow drivers are just as dangerous and this ain't the 1970's with an OPEC oil crisis...
 

PDX Flyer

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Who the fook drives the limit? It was 1-2 miles over the 11mph trigger. Slow drivers are just as dangerous and this ain't the 1970's with an OPEC oil crisis...
I agree that people going below the limit are dangerous. So you know the trigger and still go over it? I don’t see the argument.
 
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Beef Invictus

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@JojoTheWhale I for one am pumped for the resurgence in analog computing.

When the USN was reactivating the Iowa battleships, they looked into replacing the analog gunnery computers with digital. They found there was no gain in accuracy, and a loss in computation speed. The analogs remained.
 

Beef Invictus

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Somehow human remains were recovered from the wreckage. Wonder what could withstand that incredible crushing force. Maybe a hip replacement or two?

Human flesh has a lot of water so the meat isn't terribly compressible...but the sheer force of the water hitting them has got to be like an apex predator pressure washer
 

Embiid

Marcus Hayes "bitch" slapper
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I agree that people going below the limit are dangerous. So you know the trigger and still go over it? I don’t see the argument.
The argument is that I am not driving at an excessive speed over the buffer limit (the real world limit). I can't put cruise on the boulevard ...too many lights. The system is extreme that doesn't allow for reasonable driving but whatever...avoiding the nazi autobahn

The Blvd is the most dangerous road in Philly. There's a reason they put up all those cameras. I take 95 over the Blvd any day.
Yeah I get it....still nazis
 

PDX Flyer

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The argument is that I am not driving at an excessive speed over the buffer limit (the real world limit). I can't put cruise on the boulevard ...too many lights. The system is extreme that doesn't allow for reasonable driving but whatever...avoiding the nazi autobahn


Yeah I get it....still nazis
I never lived in Philly and don’t know the road so I probably can’t reasonably grasp the situation. Also I’m getting old lol.
 

Captain Dave Poulin

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@JojoTheWhale I for one am pumped for the resurgence in analog computing.

When the USN was reactivating the Iowa battleships, they looked into replacing the analog gunnery computers with digital. They found there was no gain in accuracy, and a loss in computation speed. The analogs remained.

Does this mean that we don't need to rely on as many chips (and that mineral they come from, whatever it's called, the one that Afghanistan has a lot of) as before? Does this mean they can build supercomputers that aren't as big? Does this mean that cooling the machines down won't be such a problem? What does this mean?
 
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Beef Invictus

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Does this mean that we don't need to rely on as many chips (and that mineral they come from, whatever it's called, the one that Afghanistan has a lot of) as before? Does this mean they can build supercomputers that aren't as big? Does this mean that cooling the machines down won't be such a problem? What does this mean?

....kinda.

There are tasks which analog computers are more efficient at. So you can let those processors do that work instead of having digital ones doing it. It'll help.
 

Beef Invictus

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Embiid

Marcus Hayes "bitch" slapper
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Thing that gets me is the city does shit to control the Mad Max gangs of marauders on their ATV's but let's go after a Volt driving like a normal person and hit up by big bro fascist tech with zero reasonable margin for human operator error...
 

Captain Dave Poulin

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